Fastest way to make your drawing better? Composition 💫

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Description: In this drawing lesson, part 2 of a 3 part series, you will learn about: shape language, model placement, what you can change about your source image, and more ways to direct focus to an area of your drawing. As always the full lesson in on my Patreon page along with dozens of others.
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My work focuses on the human figure. I've given drawing and painting workshops and demos throughout the United States and Europe. I have been making realist drawing and painting tutorials for two years now that I release through my Patreon page.

[@lauriecook3015]

Well this is embarrassing. After a long commercial art career I have finally retired and now I’m going to work on improving my important skills. And what I just heard and saw in this short video has pulled the rug out from under me - but kind of replaced it with a magic carpet. WHAT?!? I can modify my shadows and even leave things out? Is that even LEGAL? My brain has seized!

[@carlkim2577]

I'm also studying Russian academic drawing. And you are explaining things I'm not getting from the program. I saw one funny video where a student at their academy was drawing a large figure, and the instructor came up and smeared out the details in the legs. I was rather shocked! But it actually improved the drawing. The student even acknowledged that it had 'fixed' her drawing. Incredible! Now I get it.

[@melihgumuscay7359]

Link please

[@carlkim2577]

@@melihgumuscay7359 youtube.com/@DrawingArtAcademy?si=Pev1vFgwW-twXuGA

[@pujaysande]

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[@algernonwolfwhistle6351]

Very good. Thanks for posting.

[@scooternutmick]

Thanks Stephen. I started a pencil portrait today and was thinking about what information to leave out. Good timing and your video helped my thought process.

[@praneetakki]

Amazing information, thank you

[@dickbudig6693]

Steve . . . very good information. Back when I studied painting with Daniel Greene, he would day over and over, "Never pass up an opportunity to simplify."

[@bodawei425]

Very instructive. It helps me a lot reflect on some choices I make with my paintings. Thanks

[@AkoRandy-pd2hr]

Oh wow I thank for your idea

[@matthewwilliams3827]

I’ve always used this classical technique just using curved gestural lines

[@farmerfox3332]

This is good teaching!

[@stephenbaumanartwork]

Glad it was helpful!

[@wearelovedbyGOD]

I am taking life notes ❤ we are the director 😊 I am collecting wisdom from everywhere. Love your video

[@Willyoart]

What a great video man ! Explained so well

[@vladyslavuser4325]

Stephen! Do a video about Bernard Julien technique. People needs this to know.

[@astrol4b]

I wasn't prepared for an A.S. Roma's shirt from the eighties, daje maggica.

[@veritasart]

Lovely and informative video as always!!! Looking forward to live streams!!

[@bahumdinger8361]

Thank you...best wishes

[@kellyramirez7465]

Hi Stephen, great video! Is some of the Russian artist techniques something we can implement in our drawings when we are intermediate at drawing or do you think this should be something more advanced level will be able to better handle?

[@stephenbaumanartwork]

Start at the start. The earlier the better.

[@deyaa2856]

Hi,there are many different proportions for drawing a skull, and each artist has his own proportion. Is all of them wrong and one is correct?Can I invent my own proportions to draw a skull or animals

[@ginismoja2459]

Where can I get the reference photo?

[@mge174]

Hi👋 I am a beginner and struggle a lot to make the outline accurate So would it be wrong if I use grid method ( smaller to bigger to freehand) to draw out lines?

[@stephenbaumanartwork]

Not at all

[@kjam87gxp]

Where do u find high quality references

[@stephenbaumanartwork]

On my Patreon 😀

[@je__.]

easy subscribe for the roma jersey 😂🐺

[@stephenbaumanartwork]

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[@CARBONATED_SO-DA]

I consider myself an ok artist but my weak point has always been composition 😢 I just don't "get it", it never clicks, no matter how many in depth tutorials I watch about it. However, I think your video is very well explained, better than 90% of other videos about it. Thank you.

[@ghost21501]

I've always been a huge fan of the Russian school of drawing and painting. I might have a bit of a bias being from Moldova.

[@cabroski2126]

i want to know the secret of how you control your heard

[@michaeljohnangel6359]

There are no "rules" in art. There are REALITIES, however: if I do this, this will be the result; if I do that, that will be the result. For example, one should know that the viewer's attention will go immediately to the area of greatest contrast closest to the centre, following which, the eye has a tendency to rise, unless stopped (and there are ways to stop both these things). The artist has to know the elements of composition so that he/she can exploit them for expression-it's not a matter of "breaking rules." I point out to my students at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence, that music is the most abstract of the arts (it is virtually mathematical) and yet is the most emotionally moving of them all (once the musician knows the vast amount of music theory and knows how to manipulate it). If one want to give a pushed-against-the-wall feeling to one's head, put the face closer to the edge of the frame; if one doesn't want this to happen, don't put it there.

[@Mico-Xiyeas]

Having one of the 5 senses is a rule cuz there's no art without them

[@matthewcondon1985]

Your beard!?!? 😜

[@michaeljohnangel6359]

Another great video, maestro!!! Thanks, as always. Carolus Duran not withstanding, the three great principles in painting are simplify, simplify, and simplify (he said they are Velásquez, Velásquez and Velásquez). Should anybody care, I'm not fond of the contemporary Russians' drawings: to my eye, they swamp the big vision in a plethora of anatomical detail.

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[@yssimon9058]

To discuss composition with drawing one head is too limited. Composition can have more than two people, and many more objects, and the people's position, etc. I'd rather say ust drawing ONE person is not a composition. Real artists do real composotions, and stories and meanings come out of them.